"When you meditate, you venture into the unconscious mind like you do when you are dreaming. Nighttime dreams and daydreams are produced by the dimension of the subconscious—the part of the mind where some believe the soul resides. Christian mystic Edgar Cayce—a Kentucky farmer's son who was empowered with miraculous abilities stemming from the hidden parts of his mind—considered the subconscious to be the “brain of the soul,” which can be accessed when sleeping or awake..."

""The shadow," wrote Jung, in 1963, is "that hidden, repressed, for the most part inferior and guilt-laden personality whose ultimate ramifications reach back into the realm of our animal ancestors..."